Hi, On Mon, 11 May 2009, Alex Riesen wrote: > Some path names which transitioned from file to a directory were not > updated in the final part of the merge (loop around unmerged entries in > merge_trees), because the branch in process_renames which filtered out > updates for the files with the same content ("merged same as existing") > has left the rename entry in processed state. In this case, the > processing cannot be finished at the process_renames phase (because > the old file still blocks creation of directory where new files should > appear), and must be postponed until the update_entry phase. I know that as a German, I am supposed to like long sentences and crowded paragraphs. Maybe I am not that German after all. > Frankly, I'm not really sure. The solution came largely ... empirical > way. IOW, I tried more or less random things which looked like they > should fix the problem. This does not give me the cozy feeling I need to review a patch. After all, I do not want to do all the work that should be done by the patch author, but I just want to put in my knowledge to verify that the patch is correct. But as you asked me explicitely... > diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c > index a3721ef..3c5420b 100644 > --- a/merge-recursive.c > +++ b/merge-recursive.c > @@ -980,14 +980,15 @@ static int process_renames(struct merge_options *o, > > if (mfi.clean && > sha_eq(mfi.sha, ren1->pair->two->sha1) && > - mfi.mode == ren1->pair->two->mode) > + mfi.mode == ren1->pair->two->mode) { > /* > * This messaged is part of > * t6022 test. If you change > * it update the test too. > */ > output(o, 3, "Skipped %s (merged same as existing)", ren1_dst); > - else { > + ren1->dst_entry->processed = 0; > + } else { So basically, you say that a dst_entry has not been processed, when it _has_ been? That cannot be correct... Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html